Re: Why does 'gcc -Wall' complain about void main() ?

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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:
> gcc 9.1.0 on MSYS2
>
> combinearrays.c:14:6: warning: return type of ‘main’ is not ‘int’ [-Wmain]
>     14 | void main() {
>        |      ^~~~

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void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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Why does 'gcc -Wall' complain about void main() ? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-11-01 10:22 -0400
  Re: Why does 'gcc -Wall' complain about void main() ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-01 15:45 +0100
    Re: Why does 'gcc -Wall' complain about void main() ? Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2019-11-01 17:57 +0100
      Re: Why does 'gcc -Wall' complain about void main() ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-11-01 10:31 -0700
        Re: Why does 'gcc -Wall' complain about void main() ? Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2019-11-01 21:00 +0100
      Re: Why does 'gcc -Wall' complain about void main() ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-01 21:20 +0100
  Re: Why does 'gcc -Wall' complain about void main() ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-11-01 10:25 -0700

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